The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation was created by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Ambassador Carl Spielvogel to continue and extend their long-term commitment to the common good and the public interest. With this focus, deeply rooted in inclusiveness, social equity, and community service, the D-S Foundation initiates and supports original projects based on results-driven and innovative strategies. The D-S Foundation seeks to fund projects which demonstrate creative promise in four priority areas: projects focused on civic leadership, public affairs and diplomacy; projects of cultural merit; original educational initiatives; and science and medicine, in support of the advancement of the field of health. All funding initiatives are through an invitational process only; we are unable to accept unsolicited applications.
Civic Leadership, Public Affairs, and Diplomacy
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation seeks to encourage an informed and vibrant democracy by funding projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to strengthening public and civic engagement and democracy in the United States and abroad. We support projects undertaken by proven leaders in the civic, urban, and governmental areas, who are working to support the development of critical thinking, analytical, and leadership skills in the public sector; or who have promoted strategic diplomatic engagement to produce positive change and advancement. Consideration will also be given to young innovators with creative promise.
Projects of Cultural Merit (including Visual, Performing, Literary, Film and Electronic Arts)
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation funds individuals and institutions whose work has made a substantive and meaningful contribution to the arts, promotes our understanding and enjoyment of the world, and has had a demonstrable and lasting effect on creative fields. Projects with creative promise by young innovators are strongly considered.
Innovative Educational Initiatives
Education remains, for many underserved students, the best opportunity to create economic and emotional stability in their lives. The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation funds grantees whose work advances economic mobility and personal growth through access to high-quality education and jobs. We seek innovative initiatives that focus on young people from low-income backgrounds; that support the adaptation of safety net and workforce development programs to today's changing economy; or that creatively use external programming to develop students' interest in academic fulfillment.
Science and Medicine, in Support of the Advancement of the Medical Sciences
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation seeks to fund scientific research that impacts the field of medicine and healthcare, including biomedical research. We seek to support research that provides fundamental and previously unknown discoveries; biomedical research that will improve the health of the widest number of people; or outstanding initiatives that will demonstrably enhance public health and/or medical research.
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Chair
Throughout her career, Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel has served as a leading voice on some of the defining urban issues of our time, including the preservation of the historic built environment. She serves as a model for civic and cultural engagement, having demonstrated unparalleled commitment to the arts, architecture, design and public policy through roles that have brought her from the writer's desk to The White House, where she created the first and only White House Festival of the Arts in 1965, and helped to create the White House Fellows and the Presidential Scholars Program. As the first director of Cultural Affairs for NYC, she brought the first public art exhibit to Bryant Park (an installation of sculptures by Tony Smith, in 1967), the first public performance to Central Park by the Metropolitan Opera, and the first week-long festival of films about New York at the Regency Theatre. She remains the longest-serving NYC Landmarks Preservation Commissioner (for 17 years, under four mayoral administrations); and served as the Chair of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Foundation, from 1987 to 1995, where she created and underwrote the placement of Historic District Street Name Signs, descriptive markers, and maps in each of New York City's then-84 Historic Districts, programs that have since become models for similar initiatives throughout the U.S. In 1995, she created the Historic Landmark Preservation Center’s Cultural Medallion Program, to commemorate notable New Yorkers at buildings where they lived or worked.
She was appointed by President Reagan to the Board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and named as Chair of the Subcommittee of the USHMM that commissioned all of the museum’s Art for Public Spaces. Appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (founded 1910), she served as the first woman vice chair in its history; and appointed by President Obama to the American Battle Monuments Commission, she served as Chair of the ABMC New Memorials Committee. In 1997, she was appointed to the New York State Archives Public Trust; in 2007, she was appointed to the New York State Council on the Arts; was appointed Vice Chair in 2012; and served as its Chair and CEO from 2016 to 2018. Since 2013, she has served as the Chair of NYC Landmarks60 Alliance, a consortium of more than 100 organizations originally formed to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the NYC landmarks law, and currently planning for the 60th Anniversary of the law in 2025.
Diamonstein-Spielvogel earned her doctorate with high honors from New York University, and has shared her experience and scholarship through the authorship of numerous articles and essays, and twenty-four books about art, architecture, photography, crafts, design, and public policy. She is the curator of eight international museum exhibitions, each based on one of her books, The Landmarks of New York. First published in 1987 (now in its sixth edition), The Landmarks of New York was the first comprehensive listing, with photographs, historic information and descriptions, of all of New York City's individual, interior, scenic landmarks and historic districts. An exhibition based on the book, Landmarks of New York, circulated to 82 countries on five continents, with ancillary activities (many led by Diamonstein-Spielvogel) such as panels and lectures, in an unprecedented tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Her reach extends into other media as well, where she was interviewer/ producer for seven television and video series about the arts, architecture, design, crafts, and public policy for the ABC/Arts & Entertainment Network, and many other programs for other national networks, including CBS TV and NBC TV. Her video interviews were also shown at two exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery, and more than 350 of her interviews are now available on YouTube, having been digitized by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archives at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, she was a Founding Director of the Friends of the High Line, and on the boards of the Municipal Art Society and the NY Landmarks Conservancy, among many other organizations.
With her husband, Carl Spielvogel, in 2021, she was honored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which dedicated the Sol Lewitt room in the Museum in their honor. In addition to her earned doctorate, she is the recipient of four honorary doctorates, where she was a commencement speaker, from The Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore (1990), Longwood University, Virginia (1996), Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (2011), and Purchase College, SUNY (2017). She was appointed to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts by President Biden in 2022. In 2023, she was appointed by Governor Hochul to the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York.
Carl Spielvogel
1928 – 2021
Ambassador Carl Spielvogel served as the United States Ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2000 to 2001. For his outstanding service to Slovakia, President Rudolf Schuster presented him with the Presidential Medal of Honor of Slovakia. He had over 45 years of experience in the world of international trade, doing business in 55 countries. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of three of the world's largest global marketing and communications companies, including Backer Spielvogel Bates Worldwide, Inc.; served as Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of the Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.; and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the United Auto Group, Inc., then the nation's largest publicly-owned auto dealership group, and one of the first automobile dealership groups to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. He began his working career as a copy boy in the news department, then a reporter, and a six-times-a-week columnist for The New York Times. Former Chairman of the International Advisory Board of The Financial Times, he was a Fellow at The Center for Business and Government at The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and was a member of the Executive Committee and The Board of Trustees of The Asia Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Council for the Study of Europe at Columbia University, and served on the boards of 14 public companies and numerous not-for-profits, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philharmonic Society of New York, the Asia Society, and Mount Sinai Hospital. In 1995, he was appointed by President Clinton, and approved by the United States Senate, to serve on the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, responsible for the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Marti, and all other non-military broadcast media of the US government. Born in New York City, he received B.B.A., and Honorary L.L.D. degrees from Baruch College of The City University of New York. Ambassador Spielvogel was the 1990 recipient of Baruch's Distinguished Alumnus Award for outstanding career accomplishment. In 2003, he endowed the Colin Powell Fellowship Program at Baruch College to encourage outstanding graduates to seek career opportunities in the foreign service at the U.S. State Department. He served for 12 years as a member of the executive committee and board of trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY), the nation’s largest state university system, comprising 65 college campuses with approximately 425,000 students.
Pamela Rubin Carter Director
Pamela Rubin Carter is a psychotherapist and a lawyer. She works as a clinical therapist at the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health. For more than 30 years in legal practice, her work has included land use, real estate law, as well as general practice. Currently, she is of counsel to Mirkin & Gordon, a firm that provides legal services to the members of various New York area unions. Besides work as a land-use lawyer at several New York City law firms she has also worked with community groups in developing affordable housing in the Bronx. As a designer, Pamela worked on the exhibit “Inventions” with the Office of Ray and Charles Eames, and exhibits for the Museum of the City of New York. Currently she is an advisory board member of the NY Landmarks Conservancy where she has been on the Board of Directors since 1990. She has served on Community Board 7, where she co-chaired the Land Use and Historic Preservation Committee. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, she holds a B.S. in Architecture and Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she also studied Historic Preservation; and a M.S.W. from NYU.
Peter A. D. Rubin, M.D. Director
Peter A.D. Rubin, M.D., is a graduate of Princeton University, and received his medical degree from Yale University. He completed his Ophthalmology training at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital; and an Ophthalmic Plastic and Orbital Oncology fellowship at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, where subsequently he served as director of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery for 13 years. He has been in private practice in the Palm Beach, Florida area for the past 12 years. He is Board Certified in Ophthalmology, and a fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Rubin has performed more than 25,000 surgical procedures, authored over 200 papers and chapters, patented the Orbital Implant, a surgical device, and lectures nationally and internationally. His research interests include alloplastic implants in orbital surgery, computer applications to clinical practice and medical education, and facial aesthetics. He has served on the editorial boards of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, leading journals in the field. He has been included in Best Doctors in America annually for the past 25 years.
Thomas C. Rubin Director
Thomas C. Rubin is Chief of Intellectual Property and Content at Open AI, and a lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches law and policy related to data, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, privacy, security and competition. Formerly Special Counsel at the international law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, he was previously at Microsoft for over 15 years, where he served as Chief Intellectual Property Strategy Counsel and head of the Copyright, Trademark and Trade Secrets Group. He spearheaded complex research and development, licensing, and global legal and policy strategies across the company’s business divisions and was a senior leader in the legal department. In the 1990s, Tom was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was one of the first computer crimes prosecutors in the U.S., and was awarded the Dept. of Justice Director’s Award for Superior Performance. A graduate of Yale College and Stanford Law School, he is a frequent speaker and writer on innovation and technology policy issues worldwide. Between college and law school, he was a copyboy, news clerk and supervisor at The New York Times. Currently on the executive committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, he was vice chair of Creative Commons, and is a dedicated supporter of free expression and the First Amendment since his days at Phillips Academy, Andover, when he went to Skokie, Illinois, and wrote about the Skokie case, for which he won the Grace Prize in American History.
Karen Persichilli Keogh
Director
Karen Persichilli Keogh currently serves as Secretary to New York State governor Kathy Hochul. With more than three decades of outstanding leadership experience in the areas of public policy, government affairs, and philanthropy, she served as the Head of Global Philanthropy at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she managed $2 billion in global philanthropic investments. She joined JPMorgan Chase in 2010 as Managing Director and Head of State and Local Government Relations. Before rejoining public service, Karen served as a trustee of the Stony Brook Foundation, was a board member of iFoster and Invisible Hands and served as an ex-officio member of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden; she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jeffrey B. Schreier
Director
Jeffrey B. Schreier is a lawyer and investment banker with Metropolitan Capital Investment Banc. Previously, Jeffrey served as Managing Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, and Corporate Development for BNY Mellon. Before entering banking, Jeffrey was in private practice with Sacks Montgomery and later Proskauer Rose. He holds a J.D. from Washington University, St. Louis, where he was an Editor of the Law Review, an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. from Union College. He has served as a member of the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the NYC Bar Association, a member of the New York State Judicial Nominating Committee, and as an arbitrator in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Deborah Bershad
Executive Assistant
Dr. Deborah Bershad is an administrator in public policy, arts, architecture, and preservation, with more than 35 years of experience. A Mayoral appointment, she was the Executive Director of the NYC Art Commission (now the Public Design Commission) from 1996 to 2004; previously, she was Deputy Director of the Art Commission. She holds a doctorate in Art History from the Graduate Center, CUNY (2005), and received a Luce Foundation Grant for Dissertation Research. She holds a M.S.W. from Fordham University (1995); and a M.A. in Art History (1981) and a B.A. in History and Medieval Studies, from SUNY-Binghamton (1977). She is employed by DSF, NYC Landmarks60 Alliance, and the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center, on a part-time basis.
Recent Foundation Projects & Programs
Council on Foreign Relations
In 2024, the Council on Foreign Relations will build upon the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project for the Future of Democracy, extending the project through 2028. The project will continue its work to identify threats to the health of democracies around the world and outline steps that policymakers, business leaders, civil society, and citizens in the United States and other countries can take to reverse the erosion of democratic norms and values. The Project scope includes seven areas: artificial intelligence and democracy; identity and democracy; challenges to U.S. democracy; democracy in Europe; democracy in Latin America; democracy in the Middle East; and democracy in the Asia- Pacific. In addition to the Project's signature Roundtable Series on the Future of Democracy, CFR's Meetings program has launched a dedicated Diamonstein-Spielvogel Global Meeting Series on Democracy. New components of the program will be launched in January 2024. For more information, go to: CPR Website
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Through the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Youth and Contemporary Music Initiative, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus will deepen its innovative contemporary music education program, and bring artists, composers, and new work into the BYC program to elevate its educational standards, and deepen its choristers’ access to professional artists. The new Initiative, established in 2023, will support Composers-in-Residence and new commissions; artistic advisors to expand the BYC musical curricula; professional artist mentors and masterclasses; it also supports a major artistic project in collaboration with lead composer Paola Prestini, to be held summer 2024 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. For more information, visit: Brooklyn Youth Chorus Website
ProPublica
In 2023, ProPublica was the recipient of a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation Innovation Grant to establish the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visual Journalism Fellowship to honor Paul Steiger, the founder of ProPublica. For two years, the grant will support the development of a photographer or other visual reporter's investigative reporting skills, to help ProPublica expand beyond traditional narrative to explain complicated investigations and ultimately engage diverse audiences who would be less likely to read long-form journalism. Under the leadership of senior editor for visual storytelling Boyzell Hosey — whose career highlights include photography and multimedia editing for five Pulitzer Prize-winning stories — the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visual Journalism Fellow will collaborate on ProPublica’s in-depth investigative team projects as well as pitch and execute independent visual stories. For more information, visit: ProPublica Website
The High Line
In recognition of its significant role in re-imagining public spaces, the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation has made a multi-year grant to Friends of the High Line. As a Founding Director of the Friends of the High Line, established in 1999 to preserve the structure when it came under threat of demolition, Dr. Diamonstein-Spielvogel has a long-term interest in the High Line’s ongoing work with surrounding communities. The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation’s multi-year support provides funding for the High Line Teen Employment Program, a cornerstone educational program which offers paid work opportunities to local youth, focused on skills-building and leadership development through civic engagement, arts and culture, ecological horticulture initiatives, public programs, and strategic partnerships. Teens gain professional skills and hands-on experience as critical practitioners, while building connections with other teens in public spaces throughout the city. For more information, click here.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
A Founding Director of USHMM (1987), Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel was also appointed the Chair of the Subcommittee that selected all the Public Art for the USHMM. In 2021, the permanent exhibition gallery that houses “Consequence,” by artist Sol LeWitt, was named for Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Ambassador Carl Spielvogel, members of the Founders Society as Pillars of Memory supporters.
National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
Since 1999, the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series at the National Gallery of Art has provided a forum for distinguished individuals in the arts to share with the public, the genesis and evolution of their work, in their own words. Participants in the series include Alex Katz, Julie Mehretu, filmmakers Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith, Brice Marden, Jenny Holzer, Carrie Mae Weems, Ann Hamilton, Teresita Fernandez, Ed Ruscha and Kara Walker. For more information, visit: National Gallery of Art Website
PEN/America
PEN/America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay: This annual award, given since 1990, honors the corpus of work of a seasoned writer, whose collection of essays is published by a U.S. trade publisher in the applicable calendar year. Founded to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature, the award has been conferred to distinguished writers including Bernard Knox, Annie Dillard, Martha Nussbaum, Adam Hochschild, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Wolcott, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Marilynne Robinson, Christopher Hitchens and Cynthia Ozick, among others.
New York Public Library
Beginning in the fall of 2021, a total of 26 fellowships have been funded for Ph.D. candidates, post-Doctoral scholars, and independent researchers studying the history and culture of peoples represented throughout the collections of the NYPL/Schwarzman Building. For more information, and to apply, visit: New York Public Library Website
Comet/Poppea
This new production by Yuval Sharon, and produced by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, is a revival of Monteverdi's baroque masterpiece Poppea, juxtaposed with a world premiere production by distinguished composer George Lewis and poet and librettist Douglas Kearney, based on “The Comet,” a short story by W.E.B. Du Bois.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation supports five new fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, beginning September 2022. Four of the fellowships are for a period of one-year each, based in the Department of Drawings and Prints. and open to doctoral students, or students who have recently completed graduate-level training in conservation or research science. The D-S Foundation has also funded a new, two-year “Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math” or STEAM Fellowship, which combines the material sciences and technical investigation with art historical research on works on paper from the Museum’s collection. The recipient, either a doctoral student or a student who has completed graduate-level training in conservation or research science, is based in the Departments of Drawings and Prints and Scientific Research. For more information: Metropolitan Museum of Art Website
Chamber Music Society
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Initiative for Music and Community Engagement is an innovative new pilot program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center that brings world-class chamber music concerts direct from the renowned season at Alice Tully Hall to vibrant neighborhoods beyond Manhattan. In collaboration with esteemed partners such as the Brooklyn Public Library, Harmony Program, Police Athletic League, and New York Edge, these free performances resonate through the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, enriching lives and fostering a deeper connection between exceptional artistry and diverse communities. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is the largest producing and presenting chamber music organization in the world, bringing 140 musicians from 20 countries to New York, and on tour in the US and across the globe each year, to fulfill its mission to share the inspiration of great chamber music with eager audiences. For more information about the initiative, please visit: Chamber Music Society Website
Center for Jewish History
To mark the 60th anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Law and the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Center for Jewish History, the Center for Jewish History (CJH) is launching ‘Reimagining Jewish Space’, a year-long initiative in 2025 on the relationship between Jewish history and the built environment. Reimagining Jewish Space is comprised of three interconnected public history programs: a major public symposium, “Jewish Architecture and Historic Preservation: Past, Present, and Future”, to take place in April 2025 in coordination with the 60th anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Law; an exhibition, “CJH at 25: Preservation and Innovation”, which will chronicle the Center’s architectural evolution in the context of the NYC Landmarks Law; and a year-long lecture series, “Preserving Jewish Architecture: Case Studies Past and Present”, that will examine key cases of historic preservation involving American and European synagogues to reveal lessons for present and future preservation initiatives. For more information, go to: Center for Jewish History Website
The Public Theater
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation has a long-term interest in providing opportunities in the humanities, including the theatrical arts, while enhancing educational experiences for widely diverse communities. In line with this commitment, the Foundation has made an Innovation Grant to the Public Theater, to support Fellowships, Artist Residencies, and Masterclasses at Hunter College and Brooklyn College, both part of the CUNY system. This progressive initiative brings together two important ideas – educating young people, and providing work-force opportunities. The program provides coursework, mentoring, and hands-on, real life experiences for committed theater students to learn more about arts administration, and many other aspects of theatrical creation and production.
New-York Historical Society
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute for NYC History, Politics, and Community Activism was created as a new division of the New-York Historical Society. It has established a new historical archive, including a focus on New York City’s marginalized communities and inclusive voices that reflects important political, social, and cultural moments from the mid-1900s to the present; it offered scholarly programs, a resident fellowship, and four short-term fellowships each year. The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Forum on History & The Public Good at the New-York Historical Society will continue as one of the Institute’s programs. The Forum was inaugurated with a lecture by Bill Moyers, given in honor of Chief Rabbi Emeriti Ronald Sobel of Temple Emanu-El and held at the Leo Baeck Institute. Its programs have included interviews with the editor-in-chief of The Washington Post, Martin Baron, together with Alberto Ibarguen, President of the Knight Foundation; and political commentator, Ari Melber, together with legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar. Historian Heather Cox Richardson delivered a scholarly analysis of the evolution of American democracy on November 10, 2021. On March 29, 2022, CFR President Richard Haass and CFR Senior Scholar Yascha Mounk spoke on the State of Global Democratic Order for the Forum.
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute has received support to establish the “Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program to honor Dr. Thomas F. Schutte,” the long-term former President of Pratt. Funding is allocated for two graduate-level students; one in the School of Architecture and Urban Design and the other in the School of Design. Applicants who have demonstrated interest in climate change and action, and have already developed a relevant body of work that can be assessed by the selection committee, are encouraged to apply. For more information, go to: Pratt Institute Website
The Columbia University Climate School
Climate change is one of the most pressing global problems of our time, and it demands fresh, science-based, informed solutions. The Columbia University Climate School, inaugurated in Fall 2021, has received a grant to support two Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowships for graduate students: one fellowship honors Columbia University President, Lee C. Bollinger and the other honors Columbia Climate School Founding Dean, Alex N. Halliday. With this support, the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation hopes to enable members of underserved communities to fully participate in the Climate School's innovative programming, and to help bring diverse communities together to address this critical, and difficult issue. For more information, visit: Columbia Climate School Website
Juilliard School of the Performing Arts
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation supported the creation of a new pilot program at The Juilliard School, focused on developing and providing chorale experience and training. For more information, visit: Julliard School Website
The Nevelson Chapel at
St. Peter’s Church
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation supported the restoration of the Trinity Sculpture in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd—the only remaining intact sculptural environment by Louise Nevelson—located at St. Peter’s Church in midtown Manhattan. Saint Peter's, known as the "first church of jazz” since 1964, has offered a long and continuing welcome to jazz musicians and lovers of jazz. It also holds a weekly Mass in Spanish, and provides support to immigrant communities across the city that have been impacted by the pandemic.
New York University
Law School
The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation supported the Robert A. Katzmann Annual Symposium Series, New York University School of Law, an endowed program that honors the legacy and distinguished career of former Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann (1953-2021) of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Foundation Publication Support
Notable New Yorkers: Historic Landmarks Preservation Center Cultural Medallions Program, New York: GH Soho, 2018.
Inspiration: Young Scientists Reflect, editor Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, co-published with the Lasker Foundation, New York: GH Soho, 2020.
Grant Recipients
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
Anthology Film Archives
Asia Society
Baruch College, International Business Fellowships
Brennan Center for Justice
Center on Aging, NY Presbyterian Hospital
City Meals on Wheels
Clarion Music Society
Columbia University Climate School
American Battle Monuments Foundation
American Civil Liberties Union
American-Scandinavian Foundation
Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD)
Leo Baeck Institute
Bowne House
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation
Caridad Center (Free Clinic), FL
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Christodora (Environmental education)
City Harvest
Claudia Schreier & Company
Coalition for the Homeless
Committee to Protect Journalists
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation
Equal Justice Initiative
Firelight Media
Diplomacy Center Foundation
Fresh Air Fund
Friends of the High Line
Help USA
Historic Landmarks Preservation Center
Juilliard School
La Mama Experimental Theater Club
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
NY Historical Society
Friends of Waterfront Seattle
Gracie Mansion Conservancy
Guggenheim Works & Process
Historic Districts Council
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
Immigrant Justice Corps
Independent Curators International
Irish Repertory Theatre
Jewish Daily Forward
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Museum of Modern Art
Mission Society of New York City
National Museum of African Art, Wash., D.C.
National Sawdust
New Sanctuary Coalition (a multi-faith, immigrant-led organization for immigrant families)
NY Preservation Archives Project
The English Concert in America
New York Stem Cell Foundation
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Palm Beach, FL
Mt. Sinai Hospital
NY Philharmonic Society
SUNY Impact Foundation
The Public Theater, New York
Trust for the National Mall, Washington, D.C.
U.S. State Department, Diplomatic Reception Rooms, Washington, D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art
WNET/Treasures of New York
Restoration Project
NY Theater Workshop
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
PEN/American Center
Playwrights Horizons
Prison Initiative, The Public Theater
Pro Publica
PS21, Chatham, NY
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Riverside Park Conservancy
Row New York
Seattle Repertory Theater
Second Stage Theater
Signature Theater
Studio in a School
Trust for the National Mall
Temple Emanu-El
The Authors Guild
Vera Institute of Justice
Voices of Ascension
Yale University
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